A man by the name of George Zimmerman shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida. From the start, Zimmerman claimed that he had acted in self-defense, and the Sanford police initially accepted that account. Calls by Martin's family for further investigation around the case, which resulted in second-degree murder and manslaughter charges against Zimmerman. The case went to trial in the summer of 2013, and in July of that year, the trial jury let Zimmerman free of all charges. Zimmerman chose not to ask for a pretrial Stand Your Ground hearing, and at trial he gave a self-defense claim.…
The movement was discovered by 3 black community organizers. Alicia garza, partrisse cullors, and opal tomato. The three started the movements in the summer of 2013 after Travon Martin case was trial and no justice was served. George Zimmerman had shocked the world because he was charge with the death of travon and was found innocent in court. The Martin case had affected people around the world because there were evidence in the case shown Zimmerman killed Travon and no justice was served and Zimmerman got off free. The black lives matter is a organization pushed by blacks folks and other races, standing up for police brutality and racial profile towards blacks…
The O. J. Simpson robbery case (officially called the State of Nevada v. Orenthal James Simpson, et al.) was a criminal case prosecuted in 2007-2008 in the U.S. state of Nevada, primarily involving the retired American football player O. J. Simpson.…
The letter read by the victim of the assault is a fascinating story which is full of many issues to be addressed. It is also one of the cases which have many dilemmas. The case is about Brock Allen Turner, who is a swimmer and the victim of an assault who is a complainant. The victim of crime is complaining about Brock Allen Turner who she believes that he assault her. She was at a party with her friends, and she decides to drink some alcohol. According to the witness, she was found being raped by Brock Allen Turner in the dumpster side. Brock ran, and she was helped and taken to the hospital. The victim did not even realize what she had undergone. She was unconscious, and she could not even know where she was. When she was informed that she had been assaulted, she did not…
In the September 6 issue of the LA Times, reporter Sarah Parvini published an article about a former rapist registering as a sex offender, and his sentence. Ex-Stanford swimmer, Brock Turner, was convicted of sexually assaulting a woman behind a dumpster. The woman was completely unconscious and due to this, he was charged with three felony counts: assault with the intent to commit rape of an unconscious person, sexual penetration of an unconscious person and sexual penetration of an intoxicated person. Turner originally faced 14 years and jail but got 6 months instead. He was later released 3 months earlier than his 6-month sentence because of good behavior. This article contains conflict, drama, and oddity. This story contains a man vs.…
Different sources of media always have different perspectives on the same topic. Despite how much evidence and other known information, one source will always have different thoughts than the others. In the case of George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin, two well-known news reports, CNN and The New York Times present the same topic in various ways. The news networks both discuss what happened the night Trayvon Martin was killed, but the main differences are the attention-getting techniques, the complexity, and the sequence of information.…
Adnan Syed is a convicted murderer and sentenced to life at the Baltimore Corrections Facility. The woman he murdered was a senior at Woodlawn High School, Hae Min Lee, who was also his ex-girlfriend. Hae Min Lee went missing after school on Friday, January 13, 1999. On February 9, 1999, her body was found in Leakin Park, a victim of manual strangulation. Fifteen years later her story was brought to Sarah Koenig by Adnan’s close family friend Rabia Chaudry, who thinks Adnan Syed was wrongfully convicted of the murder. Sarah began researching this case with her team and started a podcast called Serial, a twelve episode long series. In this series, Sarah addresses the background of the case, Adnan’s alibi and other information they had gathered…
I have a huge issue with the sentencing of Brock Turner, a former student of Stanford University. Turner was charged and convicted of three counts of felony sexual assault. He sexually assaulted a 22 year-old-woman who was unconscious and intoxicated behind a dumpster on the college campus. At the end, the judge sentenced turner to six months in a county jail and three years of probation. He also must register as a sex offender, and participate in a sex-offender treatment program. Turner is scheduled to be released tomorrow from a county jail – three months early for good behavior.…
As you may know there are many people enraged about the decision that was made with the case of Brock Turner. Riots and other violent methods have been used to get certain points across; and I believe the best way to appropriately get points across with you is writing a letter. There have been accusations made claiming it was a case of male and class privilege. Was the six-month confinement in a county jail and three years of probation enough for the crime that Brock Turner committed? I understand that sanctions vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, but sexual assault is something to be taken very seriously no matter the outcome of the situation, in this situation hurting the athlete’s reputation…
The Duke Lacrosse team and the prosecutor were involved in a racially driven rape case at Duke University in Durham, NC in 2006. The focus of the investigation by the District Attorney was to convict three of the members of the team with first-degree sexual offense, kidnapping, and the rape of an African American female stripper. The purpose of this paper, is to explain where the judicial responsibility of a prosecutor failed, how race can play a major factor in how a case is being handled and how justice was served by the North Carolina Attorney General’s Office. By the end of this paper, the reader will have a better understanding of the series of events that took place in the Duke Lacrosse rape case and how the three white males had everyone against them until their names were cleared of all charges.…
Sadly, many people have served time for crimes they did not commit. Unfortunately, this is an ongoing epidemic that has terrible consequences for the innocent people who are wrongfully accused and incarcerated. In class, we watched a video about a man who was convicted of burglary and rape in the first degree and sentenced to life plus fifty years. According to a reporter by the name of Lesley Stahl, who did a 60-minute Broadcast on this case, the individual who was wrongfully accused and convicted of this crime, endured 11 years in prison until he was finally exonerated of all charges and released from prison.…
This prestige student was convicted of raping an unconscious girl behind a dumpster and with several pleadings from the mother and father they had convinced the judge along with the courthouse to let Brock walk free after only serving three months out of the six months given. Although there is no universal sentence for the crime of rape, the average time a convict is sent to prison for the crime of rape is around nine years and even so, most of the inmates get out after an average of five to six years. This is no-where near as much time as what the Student Brock did for his crime. This was most likely the result of the judge and the court agreeing on how being in jail for a white middle-class college student would set a bad reputation not only for the student, but also the impression in addition with the stereotypes of the social class therefore they let him free after such a short amount of time. This is an effect of the own-race bias, helping and noticing more on a psychological level the same race. This form of corruption must end, one solution to this is to have a certified punishment for a specific crime since there is no ‘universal sentence’ for a crime, at least but a minimum barrier. For example, if the crime committed was rape, the defense system could have a law where the minimum rule is five years and depending…
The Duke Lacrosse case was a rape case that involved false rape charges against three Duke University lacrosse players, began with gang rape allegations by an exotic dancer at a team party in March 2006. Crystal an African American student at North Carolina Central University who worked as a stripper dancer and escort,accused three white Duke University students, members of the Duke Blue Devils men's lacrosse team, of raping her at a party held at the house of two of the team's captains in durham, north carolina . But her conflicting stories shattered her credibility. The case of the Duke lacrosse team was spread out over several months and included the lacrosse season being cancelled, three players indicted on rape charges, a crooked prosecutor, turncoat faculty members and administrators, irate neighbors and even dirty cops, all of whom had their own personal agendas. Ms Magnum tells Durham police that three members of the lacrosse team forced her into a bathroom, where they beat her, raped her . The Judge orders the team members to provide DNA samples and be photographed .Forty-six of the team's 47 members comply with a judge's orders. The team's sole black member is not tested because the victim said her alleged attackers were white. The players provided cheek swabs as a form of DNA and statements to the police . They also offered to take polygraph tests. When the results came back it showed up negative . Additional test were taken from the duke lacrosse players including fingernails , underwear and the results from that also didn’t match any of the players tested . After further review the DNA samples were from Ms Magnums boyfriend , Falsely accusing her alleged attackers of rape .Defense attorneys statned that time-stamped photographs exist that show the dancer was injured upon arrival and very impaired. The Duke defense lawyers or media reports have said that:…
Convicted felons can be punished in many different ways, but one thing is sure it would not be cruel and unusual. Before we look at how we punish offenders we must first understand why we are punishing them. The general purpose behind punishment is to inflict upon criminals some kind of suffering for the crime that they have committed or to protect society from those considered too dangerous to live amongst us. Punishment, a necessary evil, is sometimes required to deter law violators from repeating their crime and to serve as an example to others who would also violate the law. Schmalleger, Frank J. Criminal Justice Today An Introductory Text for the 21st Century (81).…
In cases like these we should look real deep in the case not just because is rape or sexual assault but rather than is the offender may have done this before. Therefore we should consider a bigger punishment for them. We also got to consider that many people that done this type of crimes there old and have committed their first crime. We must think a realize that why are we putting people for their rest of his life in a prison and why we won’t just give him or she a death penalty. We are leaving someone for life in facility he or she is going to live on and die on. Now the elderly offenders are just taking space and money from the facilities. The money and the space can be use for more products to produce and farm to grow their food…. We most do something about it ether at a certain age we released those who In the facility behave good and follow directions we can make them go in work so when they get out of prison. They all ready will have a job to progress in the real world . I been asking these questions to family members, friend, teachers, and students. “What do you think about releasing offenders at age of 65? I got some interesting opinions. Like if they commit some type of crimes like sexual abuse whit a minor, first degree murder. What really cut my eye is that most of the surprising answers where from the students. That the facilities…